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  • SpaceX launches classified NRO payload from Florida

    Source: United Press International

    “A Falcon 9 rocket topped with a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office launched from Florida’s east coast early Thursday. The rocket launched at 3:10 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Little information about the NROL-95 mission has been made public aside from the fact that the payload was designed, built and will be operated by the NRO. The broadcast of the launch was restricted at the request of the NRO, SpaceX said, with the second stage two and deployment of the payload not shown.” (07/29/26)

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/07/30/SpaceX-NRO-launch/4641785394921/

  • US Army conducts first overseas test of ‘Hammer of the Gods’ weapon-disrupting system

    Source: Fox News

    “The U.S. Army on Sunday revealed it has tested a new warfare system overseas designed to covertly scramble the navigation signals used by enemy precision weapons, making it harder for adversaries to accurately strike targets from long distances while avoiding detection. The electronic system, dubbed ‘Hammer of the Gods,’ was tested at sea off the U.S. West Coast for the first time in mid-July as part of the Project Convergence Capstone 6 (PC-C6) experiment. While land-based versions have been demonstrated over the past two years, the exercise marked the official debut of the maritime variant, the Army said.” (07/29/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/army-conducts-first-overseas-test-hammer-gods-weapon-disrupting-system

  • Trump unveils Dulles airport overhaul

    Source: Politico

    “President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled plans to revamp Dulles International Airport that would create an underground train and ditch the controversial ‘people movers,’ the bus-like mobile vehicles that transport passengers arriving from international destinations. Trump has taken a keen interest in the long-discussed overhaul of the airport in Northern Virginia, while disparaging it as ‘terrible’ and ‘incorrectly designed.’ … The proposed upgrades would significantly overhaul the experience for passengers at Dulles. Expanded parking, redesigned check-in areas and more efficient security screening aimed at reducing congestion are among the proposed upgrades. The project will preserve Dulles’ legendary main terminal, which was designed by Eero Saarinen, officials said.” (07/29/26)

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/29/trump-dulles-airport-overhaul-01015447

  • Controversial robot startup faces class action lawsuit for allegedly not paying workers

    Source: SFGate

    “A San Francisco robot startup, already embroiled in a local controversy over an Airbnb rental, is now facing a class action lawsuit from former workers who say the company failed to pay them. Former contract workers are suing the Bot Company, also known as Botco, and multiple contract agencies for allegedly unpaid overtime wages, reimbursements of expenses, allegedly not providing work-free lunches and breaks, and termination pay. Originally filed in San Francisco Superior Court in April, the lawsuit obtained class action status on June 29, with three more former Botco workers signing on to a new complaint. Botco is the latest venture of Kyle Vogt, the former CEO of failed robotaxi startup Cruise.” (07/29/26)

    https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/botco-class-action-lawsuit-22366151.php

  • Turkey: Regime detains another opposition mayor among dozens of suspects in crackdown

    Source: The New Arab [UK]

    “Turkish police detained the opposition mayor of Ankara’s Etimesgut district and 51 other suspects on Thursday in a graft investigation, the Interior Ministry said. Mayor Erdal Besikcioglu was among 37 municipality employees detained after police raided the municipality in western Ankara. Detention warrants were issued for a total 55 suspects, including 18 company officials, the ministry said. Three suspects were still being sought. It was the latest step in an unprecedented legal crackdown on municipalities run by the main opposition to President Tayyip Erdogan.” (07/30/26)

    https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-detains-another-opposition-mayor-among-many-crackdown

  • Fauci takes Fifth Amendment, refuses to answer Senate panel questions

    Source: Axios

    “Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the nation’s infectious disease efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, invoked the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday and declined to answer questions from a Senate committee investigating the origins of the coronavirus. Fauci said Homeland Security Chair Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was trying to get him to say something that could put him in legal jeopardy. Former President Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci before leaving office, but Fauci argues he could be in trouble if he makes any statements that could open new lines of investigation for the committee. … Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) told Fauci he wasn’t surprised the former top infectious disease expert was taking the Fifth: ‘I think it would be almost impossible for you to answer the questions truthfully without really demonstrating what you did.'” (07/29/26)

    https://www.axios.com/2026/07/29/anthony-fauci-fifth-amendment-covid-hearing-paul

  • US regime carries out new strikes on Iran after Trump threatens “a beating”

    Source: Yahoo! News

    “The U.S. carried out strikes on Iran Thursday morning, hours after President Trump told reporters the U.S. would ‘be hitting them very hard’ in response to new attacks by Iran targeting U.S. forces in the Mideast. Hours later, Jordan shot down five missiles launched from Iran, Jordan’s state-run news agency said.At least 20 people were killed in joint U.S.-Saudi strikes on Iranian-backed forces in Iraq, an umbrella paramilitary group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces said Wednesday. Central Command said U.S. and Saudi forces conducted strikes late Tuesday on Iranian proxies in Iraq, the first confirmed attacks by a Gulf state during the war.” (07/30/26)

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/war-expands-joint-u-saudi-094845170.html


  • Of course Anthony Fauci took the Fifth — and I know the damning reason why

    Source: New York Post
    by Steven W Mosher

    “Despite being pardoned by President Biden for his COVID crimes, Anthony Fauci pled his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. He refused to answer a single question about his role in pandemic policy before the Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Senator Rand Paul, despite being immune from prosecution. I think I know why.” (07/29/26)

    https://nypost.com/2026/07/29/opinion/of-course-anthony-fauci-took-the-fifth-and-i-know-the-damning-reason-why/

  • The Truth About Universal Coverage

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Brian Balfour

    “Europe shows the risks of expanding government control over health care.” (07/30/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/the-truth-about-universal-coverage/

  • When ‘Consumer Protection’ Protects Producers from Competition

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Daniel J Smith

    “Claims to ‘protect consumers’ often shield established industries from competition. The century-old battle over the definition of ‘whiskey’ shows how.” (07/30/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/when-consumer-protection-protects-producers-from-competition/

  • America the Market

    Source: EconLog
    by Nathanael Snow

    “[Adam Smith] explains the mechanisms that Crown and Parliament in Great Britain used to achieve their goals through intervention into and control over the lives of colonists. Great Britain imposed protections and privileges for a subset of society, foreclosed on the colonists’ right to self governance, and advanced institutions to promote British nationalism. In contrast, Smith and the colonists seek after impartial institutions that govern for the welfare of all, analogous to a market.” (07/30/26)

    https://www.econlib.org/econlog/america-the-market

  • Reality is a Communist Plot

    Source: Paul Krugman
    by Paul Krugman

    “If believing something suits MAGA’s prejudices and interests, they don’t hesitate: they simply insist that it’s true. They routinely dismiss scientific and statistical evidence, but they don’t stop there. They’re perfectly willing to deny reality even if the truth is staring them in the face. Thus, Trump urged Americans to remember that 2024 TV blackout, which nobody remembers because it didn’t happen. He insists that California has ‘blackouts and brownouts every weekend,’ when the state’s 39 million residents can tell you it doesn’t. He says that you must show ID to buy groceries, which everyone who buys their own food knows isn’t so. Do Trump and his followers actually believe these things? As I see it, that’s a category error, starting from the presumption that they even accept that objective facts exist.” (07/30/26)

    https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is-a-communist-plot

  • The Money That Bought the War Is on the Blockchain

    Source: Antiwar.com
    by Thomas S Karat

    “Four days before Donald Trump took the oath a second time, a company controlled by the intelligence chief of a foreign monarchy wired the president-elect’s family its first installment. The date was January 16, 2025. The buyer was Aryam Investment 1, a vehicle backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates and brother of its ruler, a man his own country’s press calls the spy sheikh. The purchase was 49 percent of World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm, for $500 million. … What that money bought is the subject of this account. It did not buy a dinner, though there was a dinner. It bought the machinery of the American national-security state, piece by piece, and the transactions can be traced with the precision of a bank statement, because for once the participants did not trouble to hide them.” (07/30/26)

    https://original.antiwar.com/thomas_karat/2026/07/29/the-money-that-bought-the-war-is-on-the-blockchain/

  • Making Sense Of the Sahel When Washington Can’t

    Source: Libertarian Institute
    by Joseph Solis-Mullen

    “For nearly twenty-five years, Washington has quietly expanded America’s Global War on Terror across Africa. Today, U.S. military activities stretch from the Horn of Africa through the Sahel to the Atlantic coast, encompassing intelligence bases, drone operations, special operations deployments, partner-force training, logistical support, surveillance missions, and recurring multinational exercises. Yet if the objective has been to produce a more secure region, the strategic picture is difficult to reconcile with the investment. To understand why, begin with a map.” (07/30/26)

    https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/making-sense-of-the-sahel-when-washington-cant

  • Trump is still playing a reality-TV role

    Source: Los Angeles Times
    by Jackie Calmes

    “For 14 seasons right up to his first run for president, Donald Trump was the star of his own reality shows, ‘The Apprentice’ and then ‘The Celebrity Apprentice.’ The shows stopped, but Trump as president is still creating his own reality. … In the increasingly warped world in which the showrunner president appears to dwell, he inherited messes and created the best economy in history. Trump took a country that was an international laughingstock and made it respected again. He won election three times, he said yet again at Friday’s White House Correspondents Assn. dinner. But the second was rigged against him, so brave ‘patriots’ revolted on Jan. 6, 2021; they were ultimately foiled and then unfairly prosecuted and convicted — only to have super-hero Trump return to dispense clemency and spring the freedom-fighters on his first day back in office. Daily, on matters big and small, the president just makes things up.” (07/30/26)

    https://archive.is/1GLlN

  • The Democracy They Warned Us About

    Source: The Dispatch
    by Kevin D Williamson

    “he Democratic Socialists of America, an insurgency within the Democratic Party, is having a moment, and it is showing us something worth noticing: This is the democracy John Adams warned us about. Given the record of socialism in power, critics of the DSA and what it stands for are justified in suspecting that these radicals are not actually all that serious about the democratic part of democratic socialism, that the word ‘Democratic’ in the faction’s name is no more meaningful than in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. But the thing to be feared here is the opposite: They are extremely serious about the democratic part and will strip Americans of their rights, liberty, and property in the name of—and with the aid of—democracy.” (07/30/26)

    https://thedispatch.com/article/democracy-socialism-adams-mob/

  • Desperately Seeking Scapegoats

    Source: Common Dreams
    by Abby Zimet

    “Rand [Paul] and other Republicans tried to claim Fauci had no right to take the Fifth because Biden issued him a preemptive pardon that eliminated that privilege, an ongoing debate in some legal circles. What is not debated though Repubs tried to argue otherwise: Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not a confession of guilt, but a foundational right against self-incrimination as long as there exists a valid threat of prosecution. Most pointedly, the Fifth does not represent guilt but ‘the ordinary caution’ of any citizen who is dragged before a hostile panel by a vindictive chairman vowing for years to put him behind bars, and who ‘understands this hearing was never a search for information but a search for a crime – of having stood in public and told a frightened country the truth, while a president lied to it.'” (07/30/26)

    https://www.commondreams.org/further/desperately-seeking-scapegoats-2677287389

  • The Goal of Socialists Is Socialism — Not Prosperity

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by William L Anderson

    “As I observe (and participate in) a few discussions on Facebook and elsewhere about socialism, I have come to a few conclusions about the nature of the arguments and the reasons why socialists remain socialists even as we see the utter failure of socialist economies throughout history. Maybe the meme that appears once in a while — ‘If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists’ — might be true, but I doubt it. As I see it, the purpose of establishing socialism is to further promote socialism, not improve the lot of a society and certainly not to promote prosperity.” (07/30/26)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/goal-socialists-socialism-not-prosperity

  • How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Courtney Rawlings

    “Israel is spending wads of cash on public diplomacy in a desperate attempt to reverse waning American support for the country after it stands accused of genocide in Gaza and pushing the U.S. into the Iran war. Since Oct. 7, Israel has spent over a billion dollars on global ‘hasbara’ — television appearances, social media campaigns, chat-bot training, and other efforts to influence how people think about Israel. And this ‘public diplomacy’ budget more than quadrupled in the last year alone.” (07/30/26)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-campaign/

  • The Pocket Adam Smith

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Julia R Cartwright

    “Leonidas Montes has spent a whole career thinking about what the eighteenth century Scotsman was trying to say.” (07/30/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-pocket-adam-smith/

  • Prairieland: A Tactical and Strategic Analysis

    Source: Liberal Currents
    by Samantha Hancox-Li

    “The events at Prairieland on July 4, 2025, resulted in a large number of activists arrested, no national upsurge in anti-ICE sentiment, and legal and propaganda victories for the government. A tactical analysis of Prairieland is a case study in mistakes. But negative examples are nevertheless useful for future organizing.” (07/30/26)

    https://www.liberalcurrents.com/prairieland-a-tactical-and-strategic-analysis/

  • The Iran War Is Lose-Lose

    Source: The American Conservative
    by Dr. Ionut Popescu

    “The conflict between the United States and Iran has laid bare a profound failure of political judgment and strategic adaptation in Washington and Tehran alike. Both sides locked themselves into rigid adversarial paradigms and prioritized short-term tactical military successes at the expense of long-term strategy. For the United States in particular, this failure is a symptom of a much larger, more dangerous disease—a stubborn adherence to a militaristic, interventionist grand strategy that refuses to accept the realities of a multipolar world in which its relative financial and military resources are much more limited. The on-again, off-again conflict, characterized by tit-for-tat retaliatory strikes, is a lose-lose situation for both parties and for the region as a whole, yet we are unlikely to escape this tragic dynamic unless more realist strategic thinking prevails in both Washington and Tehran.” (07/30/26)

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-iran-war-is-lose-lose/

  • Right-to-Try Laws Could Increase Gene Therapy Access

    Source: Independent Institute
    by Raymond J March

    “The United States leads the world in approved gene therapies. Europe and China aren’t far behind. That sounds like good news, and it is, until you see how far all of them remain from what the technology can do. What’s the holdup? Unsurprisingly, regulation.” (07/29/26)

    https://www.independent.org/article/2026/07/29/right-try-laws-gene-therapy-access/

  • Your Internet Doesn’t Need to Be Big

    Source: Aaron Ross Powell
    by Aaron Ross Powell

    “You probably won’t ever be big. No matter where you make your digital home. This isn’t a knock against you (I’m sure your content is great), it’s just that basically no one gets big. Certainly not big enough to make a living at it. Still, though, maybe you’ll be the exception? So you might as well stick with the place everyone else is, who knows? … by not moving to somewhere that might be better for you, healthier or more fun, and doing it because you want to be in the one place everyone else is, you’re probably just denying yourself a good deal of digital enjoyment.” (07/29/26)

    https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mrsuois6422y

  • Ofcom’s quest to censor the world

    Source: spiked
    by Andrew Tettenborn

    “Ofcom has been making a right fool of itself since the Online Safety Act came into force. Over the past two years, it has been chasing US websites, formally instructing them to obey British law, and to fill in reams of compliance paperwork while they’re at it. The results have been predictable. Many of the US operations, supported by the excellent American free-speech lawyer Preston Byrne, have politely declined to take any notice of orders barked at them by bureaucrats from a small island 3,000 miles away. Ofcom, as ever tin-eared, has doubled down in response – making blood-curdling threats and imposing ever-more ludicrous fines on the sites involved.” (07/29/26)

    https://archive.is/VaF9b

  • Fauci Is a Falsie

    Source: Townhall
    by Ashley Evdokimo

    “COVID rocked our world, plain and simple. We have never seen anything like it, and in my honest opinion, it was a test. To see how we would handle an outbreak, but that is neither here nor there, and I’m not looking to get into conspiracy theories (right now). One thing is undeniable: millions of Americans lost moments they’ll never get back. Grandparents missed the births of their grandchildren. Families watched funerals through computer screens. Children lost years of a normal childhood. People died alone. And for what? That’s the question I keep asking myself as more of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private writings and communications become public.” (07/29/26)

    https://townhall.com/columnists/ashley-evdokimo/2026/07/29/what-fauci-can-never-give-back-n2680308

  • How Missouri Communities Can Keep Data Centers from Raising Utility Bills

    Source: Show-Me Institute
    by Avery Frank

    “Missouri has already taken some action to limit ratepayer costs resulting from new data centers by requiring large data centers to pay their share of costs for connecting to the grid, such as for transmission lines. … One promising state-level solution are private electricity grids, also called consumer regulated electricity (CRE). This could create a parallel path for energy generation, and help protect ratepayers from risk, accelerate capacity buildout and innovation for both data centers and power plants, and alleviate pressure on the government to meet every aspect of this complex challenge. New Hampshire became the first state to allow it, and the U.S. Congress is considering a federal CRE policy. Similar solutions can be implemented for water usage.” (07/29/26)

    https://showmeinstitute.org/article/energy/how-missouri-communities-can-keep-data-centers-from-raising-utility-bills/

  • The face of evil

    Source: The Price of Liberty
    by Nathan Barton

    “Despite movies and shows, Satan and his minions do not go around wearing horns with red skin and costumes. Evil is described as being a wolf in sheep’s clothing: it disguises itself as doing good. We’ve seen that to be the case with human government time and time again. ‘Hello, I am here to help you’ is the first of the lies we can expect on a visit from a government agent.” (07/29/26)

    https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/07/29/the-face-of-evil/

  • How does the First Amendment apply to ‘deepfakes’?

    Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
    by Tyler Tone

    “The NO FAKES Act, which recently advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with unanimous support, would offer a right to seek damages over an unauthorized digital replica of one’s likeness. The bill’s ‘one-pager’ summary points to some of the biggest examples that have inspired worry about deepfakes: an AI-generated version of Tom Hanks used for ‘advertisements for a dental plan that he never appeared in,’ for one example, and a principal at a Baltimore, Maryland, high school ‘framed as a racist by an AI-generated recording of his voice,’ for another. The bill promises to cover both. But proposals targeting deepfakes also sweep in the protected use of AI depictions for news, commentary, and, notably, parodies of public figures and elected officials.” (07/29/26)

    https://www.fire.org/news/how-does-first-amendment-apply-deepfakes

  • Why student journalists are asking to remove their names from articles

    Source: Expression
    by Michelle Liao

    “Last summer, a former student journalist asked the University of Michigan’s student paper The Michigan Daily to take down or anonymize an article they had written more than 10 years ago. The article mentioned their involvement in a movement calling for the school to divest from companies associated with the Israeli government. In the email, they explained that their partner was a green card holder, and they were about to travel abroad with their young child. They worried they would not be allowed back. … There’s a disturbing nationwide trend of student journalists making similar requests to avoid deportation or other repercussions for their protected speech.” (07/29/26)

    https://expression.fire.org/p/why-student-journalists-are-asking

  • Flock Builds the Digital Police State

    Source: Tenth Amendment Center
    by John Whitehead

    “While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward. The government is watching. It watches where you go, whom you meet, where you worship, what medical offices you visit, what political rallies you attend, what protests you join, what books you read, what websites you visit and what causes you support. It watches through your phone, your car, your doorbell, your appliances, your purchases, your social media accounts and the cameras positioned along the roads you travel every day. This is how freedom dies in the digital police state: not always through dramatic declarations of martial law or soldiers stationed on every street corner, but through the gradual construction of a technological dragnet—an electronic concentration camp—so pervasive that privacy becomes impossible and anonymity becomes suspicious.” (07/29/26)

    https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2026/07/29/flock-builds-the-digital-police-state/

  • A Skeptical Guide to UBI

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Conner McEleney

    “Many progressives, such as Robert Reich and Kyle Kulinski, argue that the economy needs a universal basic income (UBI) to fix it. Their argument stems from the idea that UBI has no serious flaws, that many studies show success, and that it’s the moral thing to do. An example that these progressives would cite would be the Denver UBI experiment. The study had three groups of people. Group A had $1,000 per month, and Group B had $6,500 for the first month; the other months were $500. Group C had $50 a month. The study concluded that giving money improved their overall well-being. As the saying goes, it’s too good to be true; the results alone are exaggerated by UBI proponents.” (07/29/26)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/skeptical-guide-ubi

  • Donald Trump and Wars of Choice

    Source: The Intercept
    by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse

    “Last week, almost a quarter century since Bush made the case for war in Iraq, a U.S. soldier was killed in an Iranian attack on an American base there. President Donald Trump was elected on a promise to say goodbye to all that. American-style wars of choice were going to be a thing of the past …. No one, I suspect, not even Trump, has the faintest idea why he did this, though maybe he felt left out of the club of forever-war makers, co-chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” (07/29/26)

    https://theintercept.com/2026/07/29/trump-wars-of-choice-iran/

  • The Post-Liberals Can’t Have Tocqueville

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Matt Zwolinski

    “Tocqueville believed liberty depended on virtue — but he trusted free institutions, not the state, to cultivate it.” (07/29/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-post-liberals-cant-have-tocqueville/

  • Parents in prison: New ways to sustain family bonds

    Source: Christian Science Monitor
    by the Editorial Board

    “The increasing incarceration of women – often for minor, nonviolent offenses – carries a high human cost. There is a shift toward alternatives that balance accountability with the right of children to continued parental care.” (07/29/26)

    https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0729/Parents-in-prison-New-ways-to-sustain-family-bonds?icid=rss

  • Border Agents Can Lie to Search Your Phone, but Wiping Your Own Data Could Land You in Prison

    Source: Reason
    by Matthew Petti

    “The government is charging Samuel Tunick for telling them a code that would erase all the data on his phone—after they tried to take it on false pretenses.” (07/29/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/07/29/border-agents-can-lie-to-search-your-phone-but-wiping-your-own-data-could-land-you-in-prison/

  • Open Fields Closed

    Source: Common Sense
    by Paul Jacob

    “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled 7-0 to protect the state’s hunting clubs from warrantless searches of their property. The Institute for Justice observes that the decision protects the right ‘to be secure on their land’ of all Pennsylvanians ‘and marks a final victory with no further appeal available.’ The decision is a big deal. For decades, courts have accepted the ‘open fields doctrine’ advanced in a 1924 U.S. Supreme Court decision. According to this rule — or rationalization — officials may conduct warrantless searches on any land beyond that which immediately surrounds a home. Even if the open-field land is clearly marked as private property.” (07/29/26)

    https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/07/29/closed2abuse/

  • When Science Becomes a State Religion

    Source: Mindset Shifts
    by Barry Brownstein

    “[US Senator Rand] Paul has exposed a side of Dr. Fauci that his admirers prefer not to see: the narcissism of a public official who became accustomed to applause, deference, and celebrity treatment. … Yes, Dr. Fauci has the emotional IQ of an eight-year-old, which would be only his problem if he didn’t use the coercive power of government to harm millions of Americans as well as destroy countless businesses. That is the personal vanity side of the story. The deeper problem is institutional: once government officials are treated as arbiters of scientific truth, dissent becomes a political offense rather than a normal part of inquiry. The issue was never only Fauci; it was the state power that allowed one official consensus to become compulsory.” (07/29/26)

    https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/when-science-becomes-a-state-religion

  • Good rule of thumb: Mind your business

    Source: Eastern New Mexico News
    by Kent McManigal

    “People who believe they have a right to not see or hear something they don’t like are one of the biggest roadblocks to liberty. They imagine they have a right to not be offended. This nonexistent right is more important to them than letting others use their own property as they wish. Offense is subjective. What offends you doesn’t offend others. Something about you offends someone. It sets a dangerous precedent to attack others based on what offends you. Being offended is a personal character problem, not a condition that creates a right to control someone else.” (07/29/26)

    https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2026/07/29/voices/opinion-good-rule-of-thumb-mind-your-business/233907.html